Meanings
- rareuncountableOther related places; wherever.
The deed roundly asserted that the island of Antigua (or wherenot) lay in the parish of St Mary, […]
1895, Francis Watt, The Law's Lumber Room, pages 32–332 more examples
[…] and that now, as then, a morning with the hunt does not always repay the hunting man for getting up in the night and driving in the dark to Dumdum or Cox's Bungalow, or wherenot.
October 1893, Edward Braddon, “Thirty Years of Shikar”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 500We have thus, instead of a monument erected on the hearth of Russian tradition and feeling, numberless single stones, some of which, beautifully carved, — but in crooked lines, — lead us to Bagdad, China, and wherenot.
1916 January 1, The Musical Times, page 16
Origin
From where + not; compare whatnot.
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